A very nostalgic (cheap!) lunch

Ooh, Witzend, I now know what I'm having for lunch! I love tomatoes in toast and didn't realise the health benefits of cooked ones either.

I love tinned tomatoes on toast.

I often have tinned tomatoes on toast there is nothing tastier. With lots of butter on the toast and white pepper the simpler the better.

Even better with a poached egg on top.

I've never had that, witz, but I shall have it soon! Thanks for the idea.

Oh my - that takes me back...

That was going to be my next comment a poached egg!

We used to have baked beans and an egg on toast.

I really dislike baked beans with eggs now ? although I do eat either separately on toast now.

Ps it was dinner

Ugh, no, sorry! I use canned tomatoes for making sauces, chilli, etc. but could not eat them on their own.

Tomatoes on toast is one of my favourite breakfast dishes.

I often have tinned toms on toast I think I like the tinned ones better than fresh but I hate tomato soup I don’t think it tastes anything like tomatoes
Grate a bit of cheese on top of the tinned toms on toast

A guilty pleasure once in a blue moon, tinned tomatoes on fried bread. My mouth waters at the thought of it ?

I 've never heard of tinned tomatoes on toast ,I used to always complain when they were put on breakfasts in hotels ,gave me the boak .I only use them in sauces ,its fresh otherwise

My guilty cheap lunch that is also probably not in the least nutritional is a packet of chicken SupaNoodles! Awful to admit but that packet of dust powder to sprinkle over them in the pan is, to me (!) delicious. Move over Nigella.

We used to have them for tea after we arrived home from school. Tinned toms often have more flavour than fresh, especially those that are grown in poly tunnels.

Years ago Elizabeth David visited an Israeli tomato grower with acre of poly tunnels filled with tomatoes. As she left the tunnels she noticed few plants growing outside and asked why the farmer didn't grow more like them for the UK. The answer was that the supermarkets wouldn't buy them because they had to fit in plastic packs and be a uniform shape because that's how the housewives liked them.

PPTs as my DH calls them. Peeled plum tomatoes.
They’re a regular breakfast for me twice a week and they have to be on sour dough toast. Fresh tomatoes don’t quite match the tinned version.

I grow them though to use in cooking and freshly sliced with mozzarella and salads.

Tinned toms need pepper and a little sugar

Well it’s got to be beans on toast with a sprinkle of grated cheese! Cheap, healthy and filling, my DC grew up on them when money was tight!

I’ve never eaten tomatoes unless they are cooked in a sauce. When working I used to just have an apple lunchtime, no wonder I was a 10. Now I can’t resist food.

My cheap meal from the Students Union was a small bread roll, pat of butter and filled with cheese and onion crisps! I still love a crisp sandwich but it has to be white bread.

Tinned tomatoes are an ingredient, not a foodstuff that can stand alone. I hate it when we stay at a hotel and the tomatoes with the cooked breakfast are tinned.

I love (fresh) tomatoes, grilled on toast, as a vegatable side with omelettes, chops, steak, omelette etc, but thebplace for tinned tomatoes is in a pan or casserole with the incredients of a casserole, meat sauce or other made up dish.

If I have cherry tomatoes that are past their best I put them in the microwave with a little water and a lot of butter. I cook them until they are soft and have them on toast for lunch. Delicious!

I tend to use tinned tomatoes in stews, curry’s, chillies etc but do very occasionally have them on toast. I like them to be simmered right down so the juices have reduced & thickened up, served with plenty of salt & black pepper & a dash of Worcester Sauce. A cheap meal too.